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There were really only two things that I worked on this week, completing the challenge that I set myself last week and working on processing all the information that I collected last month at the East Sussex Record Office. I didn’t specifically do anything about updating my to-do list or on Finding Minnie.

East Sussex Record Office information

I did a little work on some Brighton marriages that I collected at East Sussex Record Office, but got side-tracked with one of the Trower marriages. Unfortunately the groom Abraham Trower wasn’t in my family tree, so I decided that I ought to add him, but that meant I also had to add his father as well (and his many siblings) and this took much longer than I had intended, in fact I still haven’t finished this.

This Brighton branch of the Trower family is something I have neglected, although in typical fashion I do have some more information already but haven’t added it my database yet. I think this is an important branch of the family and although I am not quite in the position to start a one-name study I do think that I need to put in some more work on this branch.

Challenging times: Updating facts without sources

I am pleased to say that I have successfully completed the challenge I set myself on Monday to make sure that all the facts in my database have at least one source attached (several have more than one). I am glad I that I have got that out of the way, although to be honest it wasn’t really that difficult, but it did involve actually making decisions on how I was going to record things, something that I have put off for too long.

Part of this involved re-visiting some of my US relatives and assessing what further work I need to do. What I really need to do at this stage is work through all the information that I have gathered over the years and make sure it is all recorded in my database. I have gathered lots of bits of information over the years (like census images and newspaper extracts) but have not actually done anything with them yet.

Future Challenges

Re-visiting some random parts of my family tree has given me many ideas for things that still need to be done. I am conscious that I am not getting out to record offices often enough, but I don’t feel quite so bad now because I realise that there is still much to be done with the information I already have and that I still have a lot of information that I haven’t processed yet.

So I think any futures challenges need to be related to processing what I already have, there is much to do in that respect on so many parts of my family tree, but really it ought to initially be focused on Patrick Vaughan and Finding Minnie but I think I need to go through all my files and folders and making sure everything is up to date.

I probably need to make sure I have my to-do list updated as well because I know the process of going through my files will generate new to-do items and I need a solid foundation on which to build upon.